USS Isla de Cuba

	Isla de Cuba soon after completion, probably in a British port
History
Spain
Name	Isla de Cuba
Namesake	The island of Cuba in the Caribbean
Builder	Sir W.G. Armstrong Mitchell & Company, Elswick, Tyne and Wear, England
Cost	2,400,000 pesetas
Laid down	25 February 1886
Launched	11 December 1886
Completed	22 September 1887
Fate	Scuttled 1 May 1898; captured and salvaged by the United States Navy
United States
Name	USS Isla de Cuba
Namesake	The island of Cuba (Spanish Navy name retained)
Acquired	by capture, 1 May 1898
Commissioned	11 April 1900
Decommissioned	9 June 1904
In service	as school ship, March 1907
Fate	Sold to Venezuela, 2 April 1912
Venezuela
Name	Mariscal Sucre
Namesake	Antonio José de Sucre
Acquired	2 April 1912
Fate	Scrapped, 1940
General characteristics
Class & type	Isla de Luzón-class protected cruiser
Displacement	1,038 t (1,022 long tons)
Length	195 ft (59 m)
Beam	30 ft (9.1 m)
Draft	11 ft 4.75 in (3.4735 m) (mean)
Installed power	535 ihp (399 kW)
Propulsion	2 × horizontal triple expansion engines; 2 cylindrical boilers; 2 × screws;
Speed	11.2 kn (12.9 mph; 20.7 km/h)
Capacity	160 short tons (150 t) of coal
Complement	164
Armament	4 × 4 in (100 mm)/40 cal guns; 4 × 6-pounder 57 mm (2.24 in) quick-firing guns; 3 × 14 in (360 mm) torpedo tubes (above water);
Armor	Deck: 1–2.5 in (2.5–6.4 cm)

USS Isla de Cuba was a Isla de Luzón-class protected cruiser of the United States Navy captured from the Spanish Navy during the Spanish–American War. Originally named Isla de Cuba for the Spanish colony of Cuba, the ship was ordered from the British shipbuilding company Sir W.G. Armstrong Mitchell & Company in January 1886 and laid down on 25 February 1886. The ship was launched on 11 December 1886 and completed in 1887. The vessel fought in the Rif War before being assigned to Spain's fleet in the Philippines. When the Spanish fleet in the Philippines was attacked by the United States Navy during the Battle of Manila Bay, Isla de Cuba was scuttled to prevent capture. However, the Americans raised the ship and commissioned her into the United States Navy in 1900 and assigned to the Asiatic Station, keeping the same name. In US service, the ship, rerated as a gunboat, was used to suppress the Philippine Revolution. The vessel was taken out of American service in 1904, becoming a school ship. In 1912, the US sold the ship to Venezuela which renamed her Mariscal Sucre. The ship was scrapped in 1940.